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River engineering

About: River engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 435 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10286 citations. The topic is also known as: Channelisation.


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TL;DR: In this article, a geospatial database of historical engineering construction was used to quantify the response of flood levels to each unit of engineering infrastructure, and the largest and most pervasive contributors to increased flooding on the Mississippi River system were wing dikes and related navigational structures.
Abstract: [1] Along >4000 km of the Mississippi River system, we document that climate, land-use change, and river engineering have contributed to statistically significant increases in flooding over the past 100–150 years. Trends were tested using a database of >8 million hydrological measurements. A geospatial database of historical engineering construction was used to quantify the response of flood levels to each unit of engineering infrastructure. Significant climate- and/or land use-driven increases in flow were detected, but the largest and most pervasive contributors to increased flooding on the Mississippi River system were wing dikes and related navigational structures, followed by progressive levee construction. In the area of the 2008 Upper Mississippi flood, for example, about 2 m of the flood crest is linked to navigational and flood-control engineering. Systemwide, large increases in flood levels were documented at locations and at times of wing-dike and levee construction.

83 citations

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01 Mar 2019-Catena
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid intelligence approach based on evolutionary fuzzy approach is developed to predict river suspended sediment concentration (SSC) using discharge information as it is the main trigger for the SSC amount.
Abstract: Providing a robust and reliable prediction model for suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is an essential task for several environmental and geomorphology prospective including water quality, river bed engineering sustainability, and aquatic habitats. In this research, a novel hybrid intelligence approach based on evolutionary fuzzy (EF) approach is developed to predict river suspended sediment concentration. To demonstrate the modeling application, one of the highly affected rivers located in the north-western part of California is selected as a case study (i.e., Eel River). Eel River is considered as one of the most polluted river due to the streamside land sliding, owing to the highly stochastic water river discharge. Thus, the predictive model is constructed using discharge information as it is the main trigger for the SSC amount. The prediction conducted on different locations of the stream (i.e., up-stream and down-stream stations). Three different well-established integrative fuzzy models are developed for the validation purpose including adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system coupled with subtractive clustering (ANFIS-SC), grid partition (ANFIS-GP), and fuzzy c-means (ANFIS-FCM) models. The predictive models evaluated based on several numerical indicators and two-dimension graphical diagram (i.e., Taylor diagram) that vividly exhibits the observed and predicted values. The attained results evidenced the predictability of the EF model for the SSC over the other models. The discharge information provided an excellent input attributes for the predictive models. In summary, the discovered model showed an outstanding data-intelligence model for the environmental perspective and particularly for Eel River. The methodology is highly qualified to be implemented as a real-time prediction model that can provide a brilliant approach for the river engineering sustainability.

80 citations

Book
27 Apr 1995
TL;DR: The fundamentals of river engineering and flood protection are discussed in this article, with a focus on specific cases of river regulation and flood control, as well as selected project examples of river surveys.
Abstract: Part 1 Properties of rivers - project problems: properties of rivers and fluvial processes river models planning and design of training works river surveys. Part 2 Fundamentals of river engineering and flood protection: fundamentals of river engineering specification of materials and elements of structures design and construction of river training structures design of flood protection works particular cases of river regulation and flood control selected project examples.

80 citations

Book
03 Nov 1982
TL;DR: A collection of papers by an international group of experts that clarifies the physical processes operating in gravel-bed rivers is presented in this paper, where the authors identify engineering and management techniques based on natural flow processes to minimize the effect of river engineering and water resource development on river systems.
Abstract: A collection of papers by an international group of experts that clarifies the physical processes operating in gravel-bed rivers. Identifies engineering and management techniques based on natural flow processes to minimize the effect of river engineering and water resource development on river systems. Promotes improved design and modelling methods. Discusses future research requirements.

77 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed 1-D unsteady-flow models of multiple historical reference conditions (retro-models) for three large study reaches (225-315 km each): one along the Middle and Lower Mississippi River (MMR and LMR) and two reaches along the LMR.

76 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202127
202029
201926
201813
201717
201616